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Bulletin 444 April/May 2014 Registered Charity No: 272098 ISSN 0585-9980 SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CASTLE ARCH, GUILDFORD GU1 3SX Tel/ Fax: 01483 532454 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk Bulletin 444 April/May 2014 TRAINING FOR WAR IN SURREY Above: WW2 graffiti at Claycart. Below: Military Efficiency Tests at Aldershot, from Illustrated War News, October 1917. MORE TRENCHES AND RANGES Richard Alexander This article covers additional ground addressed in previous Bulletin articles, providing an overview of more recent firing ranges mentioned, but not described, in Bull 440, and some more recent trenches not mentioned in Bull 438. The features were mainly identified through field walking, some in the course of the authors’ recently completed masters degree in 20th century conflict archaeology, and were surveyed by off-setting with 50m tapes with local datumsestablished using a hand held GPS. In common with other archaeological surveys of military practice trenches, their edges are shown with straight lines rather than hachures. Claycart Features adjacent to Claycart Road consist of a machine gun range of two brick- walled sections with surrounding earthworks. The feature at the western end of the range is constructed with bricks from a company that ceased trading in 1930, and map regression work also confirms this pre-1930 date. The brick feature towards the eastern end of the range is of slightly different design, as its supporting buttresses are narrower and it is reinforced with iron sheeting approximately 12.5mm thick (half an inch) on the areas receiving the shots. The layout indicates that the two are associated, but the differences in construction suggest one was a later addition. The eastern feature contains graffiti dated 1941, suggesting that the range was constructed just prior to 1930, but continued to be used and developed until fallen into disuse to become a graffiti canvas by WW2. Claycart: Eastern end of firing range with trench section in foreground 2 Claycart: Trench and range survey Adjacent to the range are a set of military practice trenches between one and two metres wide, and between one and one and a half metres deep. On the whole the woodland here is quite light, and the trenches relatively easy to identify and survey. Of four sections of trench, two are short sections of between 30 and 40m, another is of c85m and the last of 140m. None are inter-connected, and they form a broadly zig- zag pattern. At a point on the southern edge of the firing range earthworks just east of the brickwork (SU85125144), the practice trench cuts through the firing range earthworks, indicating that the range pre-dates the trenches. Since the range can be dated to prior to 1930, the trenches are more recent, and their zig-zag pattern does not easily fit any of the standard WW1 lay-outs. For these reasons, they are presumed to be of WW2 construction. Potters This feature is not far from Potters International Hotel, the previous site of the Aldershot Officers Club. Map regression places this as being a machine gun range dating to around 1930, and its design and construction are similar to that at Claycart. It consists of a single brick section of walling with earthworks to either side. Just east of the brickwork is a rectangular concrete base remnant of a building, and although there is no direct evidence to conclude that it is related, its close proximity suggests it could be. A shell casing dating to 1944 was found in the earthworks associated with the range, suggesting, unlike the similar machine gun range at Claycart, that it had remained in use well into WW2. Potters machine gun range 3 Ash Vale military practice trenches Two short sections of trenches were identified in MOD woodland at Ash, on either side of the main footpath from Ash Vale railway station, over the canal and towards Ash Ranges. Ash Vale trenches survey The more westerly of the two sets runs for 38m along a bearing of 20˚ centered on SU 8959 5367 in a rough zig-zag pattern. It is quite shallow, ranging from 0.5 to 1m in depth, and varying in width from 2 to 2.5m. The eastern set runs for 46m on a bearing of 340˚ centered on SU 8951 53651, and is better preserved than the other, and also follows a zig-zag pattern. At its southern end the trench is a widened, rectangular section with an 'island' centered in it. The nature of this part of the trench is as yet unclear, although an island traverse can be ruled out as it is not sufficiently large to be one of these, and they fell from use prior to the likely date of these trenches. The trench is between 1 and 1.5m wide, and Ash Vale: western run varies in depth from 0.5 to 1. Neither trenches match designs covered in WW1 manuals, whereas both sets appear to be of the zig-zag design often identified as being of the WW2 era. They are not the first military practice features identified in the Ash area, as two late 19th century earthworks were identified and surveyed on Ash Ranges in 2004 by Judie English. 4 Ash Vale: eastern run Conclusion As noted in Bull 438, in comparison with some other military training areas the contemporary archaeology of the Aldershot area remains relatively unstudied, and Young also noted a lack of recorded evidence of military practice trenches within the area (2008). Identification of the practice trenches described above, therefore, is of considerable significance. These features are indicative of the facsimile conflict landscape that would be expected of the wider training area. In 1909 the second largest firing range in the world was operational within the Aldershot training area at Bisley (the largest then being at Guantanamo). The identification of continuing development of ranges, in addition to the facility being created, demonstrates the expected on-going need for ever greater training resources, even in the inter-war years. As noted above, earlier military training features have been identified within the landscape (English 2004), and there is evidence of military detritus from modern training across the area. As such these features represent the gap between existing archaeologically recorded military training features and the on-going military training taking place on the site today. I would like to thank J. Revell for drawing the Claycart features to my attention. REFERENCES English, J., 2004. Two late nineteenth-century military earthworks on Ash Ranges, near Aldershot, Surrey. Landscape History 26, 87–93. Ordnance Survey Maps 1873, 1897, 1912, 1920, 1938, 1961, 1978 Ordnance Survey Manoeuvre Map Aldershot District (North) 1905 McOmish, D, Field, D & Brown, G, 2002, Field Archaeology of the Salisbury Plain Training Area, English Heritage War Office 1997, British Trench Warfare 1917-1918, A Reference Manual, Imperial War Museum and Battery Press Wilson, H C & Casey, KKV, 1909, Rifle Range Construction, du Pont Young, A, 2008, The Aggregate Landscape of Hampshire – Results of NMP Mapping, Cornwall County Council (Historic Environment Service (Projects)) 5 THE ROMANO-BRITISH RURAL SITE AT FLEXFORD: Excavations in October 2013 The Society’s excavations have continued at Flexford and two more busta were excavated. These are Roman funeral pyres where the cremation takes place above a prepared pit into which the burnt remains fall. These may be left in place or else partially or completely cleared and taken elsewhere, and pots may be placed in the pit after this process. The pit is then backfilled. As with the other two busta found at Flexford they were 0.45m below the surface and approximately 3m long by 1.4m wide. They had steep sides cut into the sandy subsoil and were lined with 1-2cm of clay which had burnt red during firing. The pits had been backfilled with clean sandy 14 clay. C analysis of charcoal from these busta has given dates of AD 260-420. The four busta excavated so far are in a line about 45m long running north-south roughly parallel to, and 30m east of, the suggested access track to the site. One excavated in October was the deepest so far, reaching 1m below the ground surface. Equally remarkable was a large flue at its north end that was at least 1.2m long, 0.3m wide and 0.3m deep. Three complete charred wooden staves, each about 2m long, were found placed lengthways above the clean sandy fill. Small samples were taken from each stave for analysis but otherwise they were left in position and therefore blocked access to all but the north-west corner of the feature. Excavating this sector revealed a large decorated greyware pot and a small greyware pot filled with material from the bustum. It appeared that the calcined bone was still in place in this section. The lower 10cm of the bustum was filled with black material which, at first sight, looked like charcoal but which subsequent analysis has shown to be burnt earth. The second excavated in October was not quite as deep and retained some nails, ash, charcoal, remains of burnt logs and a few traces of calcined bone. There was evidence for a small air inlet at the south end. A separate trench found two U-shaped ditches that intersected just beyond the north section. The earlier ditch was 1.2m wide and 0.4m deep running approximately NNE- SSW. This had been deliberately and tightly backfilled with flint and gravel that was so tightly packed it was difficult to prise apart. The later ditch was 1m wide by 0.4m deep with an apparent flange on each side 40cm wide and 10cm deep.
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